Frontiers and Borderlands:
Blogging Across Disciplinary Boundaries
August 18, 2024
“I’m tired of feeling tired.” That’s a phrase I’ve repeated to my partner many, many times in the past ten years. But I’ve been tired, at least intermittently, for decades before that. And not only that. I’m going to lay [...]
July 25, 2024
Having recently hung up my doctoral tam as a full-time professor, I’m looking ahead to a new, or renewed, professional life. To support that life, I’ve created a new website and migrated my old blog over to it.I’m keeping the [...]
January 12, 2020
Nearly three years ago I joined Susanne Bertheir-Foglar of Université Grenoble Alpes in hosting the conference “Migrations and Borders in the United States: Discourses, Representations, Imaginary Contexts.” In September 2018, we published our first volume of selected papers under the same [...]
October 16, 2018
In an effort to stave off political attacks on an issue from earlier campaigns, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) has released results of a DNA test demonstrating that one of her forebears–at least six generations back–was, indeed, (genetically) Native American. [...]
July 26, 2018
Historians have traditionally relied on written, often narrative, sources to write about the past. In the 1960s that began to change with the exploration of more diverse written and printed sources like court records, birth, marriage, and death certificates, [...]
May 30, 2018
Furs. Land. Wampum. Money. Manahatta, a play by Mary Kathryn Nagle, premiered this year at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and I was fortunate enough to see it last night. It intersects with the story that I told in my first [...]
September 16, 2017
Committing to “improve relationships with Indigenous people, knowledges and practices,” the principals with the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board in Canada, each received Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belts that symbolized and sealed this agreement. You can read the story here. [...]
May 18, 2017
Last summer mental_floss posted a story titled “The First Americans Didn’t Arrive by the Bering Land Bridge, Study Says.” It was an interesting piece that reports on findings published by a group of scientists in Nature. They had retrieved core samples from Charlie Lake and [...]
March 5, 2017
You don’t have to visit Albany to enjoy and learn from the marvelous pieces of wampum’s history and legacy that Renee Ridgway has brought together. Of particular interest are clips of interviews with Iroquois community members Rick Hill, Sue Herne, and Jake [...]
March 4, 2017
Opening today at the Albany Institute of History & Art is a new exhibit by Renée Ridgway: Wampum World. Ridgway “is an artist, researcher, and educator based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands” and her installation is a "multimedia exhibition . . . an [...]
